When Serenityaudio’s Danny Kitainik finished prepping his inventory in readiness for a busy July weekend of gigs around his base in Chippenham, UK, he could have loaded the truck that evening. But it had been a busy day, the team was well ahead of schedule and the load up could wait until tomorrow…
Within half-an-hour of arriving home, he got word that a fire had broken out in neighbouring garage premises and had spread quickly to his unit. His Nexo inventory was a total loss.
‘We had bookings for a celebrity cricket match, quickly followed by Biddstock Festival on the weekend, and my first thought was that I couldn’t let my clients down,’ Kitainik says. ‘But with less that two days before the first event, things were looking difficult.’
Chris Hooke at Total Sound Solutions heard of Danny’s dilemma and spread the news, prompting Nexo rental partners to step in: ‘Within 24 hours I had nearly all the Nexo gear I needed from Chris, with Nexo monitors from John Tinline at Encore Sound,’ Kitainik says. ‘I didn’t even have to collect anything. And I got offers of help from Robert Nisbet at EPS and others that I didn’t need to call on, but I’m very grateful for, nonetheless.
‘All the jobs went perfectly. Chris and the wider Nexo rental community really came through for us, and we’rehumbled by the offers of help and support from our network of friends and peers. We couldn’t have done it without them.’
More: serenityaudio.co.uk
